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Cart and Horsehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179582
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179582Considering that .Net 3.0 is supposed to be the Win32 API replacement, effectively, for Vista, wouldn't it have been sensible to release the programming platform well in advance and not weeks before the actual OS itself?Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:47:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (segedunum)CommentsRE: Cart and Horsehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179588
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179588It was released well in advance. Just not in RTM form.Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:02:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Marcellus)CommentsRE[2]: Cart and Horsehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179591
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179591As long as I know, is not a replacement for the Win32API, not yet.

:)Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:05:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (ebasconp)CommentsRTMhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179606
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179606Released to mirrors?
Rejected that monstrosity?
Returned the milk?Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:09:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (smitty_one_each)CommentsRE: Cart and Horsehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179609
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179609Considering that .Net 3.0 is supposed to be the Win32 API replacement, effectively, for Vista, wouldn't it have been sensible to release the programming platform well in advance and not weeks before the actual OS itself?

It is not a replacement for the Win32 API.

But you have been able to download beta versions for a long time as well as tools to program for it.

.NET 3.0 is:

Windows Presentation Foundation Classes (WPF) [Avalon] - The technology for building rich Windows applications with special features for managing layout, text, 2-d and 3-d graphics and much more.

Windows Communication Foundation Classes (WCF) [Indigo] - A new framework for inter-process communication that will change the way we interact with web services and the way we implement remoting.

Windows Workflow Foundation Classes (WF) - This is a framework for creating workflow engines that can be incorporated into your application

Info Spaces [InfoCards] - A very nice way to deal with controlling how you identify yourself and how much information you provide on the web.Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:17:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (NotParker)CommentsRE[2]: Cart and Horsehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179627
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179627One correction: The name for Microsoft's implementation of information cards is CardSpace.Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:46:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (n4cer)CommentsRE: RTMhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179633
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179633http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_to_manufacturingTue, 07 Nov 2006 17:53:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (robilad)CommentsRE: RTMhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179636
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179636Take this acronym lovers:

.Net is now what Microsoft want you to use to program on Windows. In the case of Vista the Win32 API and COM is still there for legacy reasons, but you're not going to be able to get access to any of the new Vista stuff like Avalon unless you do .Net. It's that simple. For that reason it is replacing the Win32 API and COM.

Info Spaces [InfoCards] - A very nice way to deal with controlling how you identify yourself and how much information you provide on the web.

Wow. Pulled straight out of Microsoft's marketing backside. I can identify myself well enough, thank you very much.Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:59:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (segedunum)CommentsRE: RTMhttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179654
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179654Released to mirrors lol
I think I saw it on ftp.gwdg.de and mirror.pacific.net.au , lol :-)Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:30:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (hussam)CommentsRE[3]: Cart and Horsehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179658
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179658For that reason it is replacing the Win32 API and COM.

Nope. Native applications will still be using the Win32 API.

If you want a managed application, you should use .NET.

Hybrid applications use both.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebet...Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:53:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (NotParker)CommentsRE[3]: Cart and Horsehttp://www.osnews.com/thread?179665
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179665For that reason it is replacing the Win32 API and COM.
It's still implemented using unmanaged code, for that reason it can't replace win32.Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:01:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (Bending Unit)CommentsReplace, or require win32http://www.osnews.com/thread?179833
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179833The current .net implementation is using the win32 api, to perform many things, so you might as well call it a nice wrapper around an api that should have died 10 years ago*.

*Yes I have developed software to the win32 api. It's an interesting expierence.Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:29:00 GMTdonotreply@osnews.com (mtilsted)CommentsRE: Replace, or require win32http://www.osnews.com/thread?179964
http://www.osnews.com/thread?179964*Yes I have developed software to the win32 api. It's an interesting hack